On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:02:24PM -0600, Georg Lehner wrote:
> It is my opinion, that all sh-scripts involved in the standard system
> should be posix-sh compatible
Correct; if you find one which isn't, please file a bug against the
package.
> _and_ that the selection of the /bin/sh
> symlink should be realized by the alternative-mecanism instead of
> diverting.
Technical problems here. Among other things, you'd have symlinks
/bin/sh -> /etc/alternatives/sh -> /bin/<something>
What happens if /etc is corrupted or not mounted or there are other
problems? Then you wouldn't be able to boot linux with init=/bin/sh.
Also, there is another major problem with using update-alternatives:
we must *always* have a working /bin/sh, so it must be included in an
essential package. But then we can't use alterternatives, which have
to be organised from the maintainer scripts.
Julian
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